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“For years I have lived in Ethiopia as a Sister of the Imitation of Christ, committed to bringing healing, hope, and love, building healthy relationships in one of the poorest regions of the world,” said Sister Surabhila, SIC.

The Vatican newspaper reported that “after her release, she returned to India to try to overcome the deep emotional trauma, then found the courage and strength to return to Ethiopia, where she founded a clinic.”

“I asked the Holy See to intervene and mediate to help preserve the Christian presence in those villages, whose residents have always supported the Lebanese state and its official military institutions, and have never departed from this commitment,” Youssef Rajji said in a social media post.

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, affirmed that “the Holy See is making all the necessary diplomatic contacts to halt the escalation in Lebanon and to prevent the displacement of citizens from their lands,” Rajji added.

Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to Father Pierre el-Raï as he renewed his appeal for prayers for peace.

Continuing his series of Wednesday general audiences on the Second Vatican Council and its documents, Pope Leo XIV devoted his March 11 audience to the Church as the People of God—a people that everyone is called to enter.